A Documentary History of Religion in America

by Gaustad, Edwin S.

• ISBN13: 9780802806178
• ISBN10: 0802806171
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Described by Choice magazine as "the best source book available", A Documentary History of Religion in America has been a standard resource for nearly a decade. In two substantial volumes, Gaustad has compiled hundreds of intriguing documents that chronicle the multi-faceted history of religion in America.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	xiv
Preface to the First Edition	xv
Illustrations	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Natural Religion And National Religion	1	(56)
Natural Religion	5	(15)
Ceremonies	5	(1)
Hopi	5	(4)
Zuni	9	(1)
Chinook	10	(2)
Kwakiutl	12	(2)
Myths	14	(1)
Tsimshian	14	(2)
Pima	16	(1)
Cherokee	17	(2)
Zuni	19	(1)
National Religion	20	(37)
Spain	20	(1)
Expulsion of the Moors	20	(1)
Expulsion of the Jews	21	(1)
Dividing the New World	22	(2)
Saint Teresa de Jesus	24	(2)
Society of Jesus	26	(3)
Germany	29	(1)
Martin Luther	29	(4)
Luther and Desiderius Erasmus	33	(5)
France	38	(1)
Francis I and John Calvin	38	(3)
Edict of Nantes	41	(1)
A Gallican Church	42	(1)
Britain	43	(1)
Henry VIII	43	(3)
Edward VI	46	(2)
Mary I	48	(1)
Elizabeth I	49	(2)
John Knox	51	(1)
Richard Hakluyt the Younger	52	(2)
Suggested Reading	54	(3)
Europe In America	57	(72)
New Spain	63	(10)
Ponce de Leon	63	(1)
Bartholomew de Las Casas	64	(1)
Dominicans in Florida	65	(2)
Pedro Menendez de Aviles	67	(1)
Franciscans and Indian Revolt	68	(2)
Franciscans in New Mexico	70	(3)
New France	73	(9)
French Views of Native Americans	73	(2)
Advice to Missionaries	75	(2)
Brebeuf's Instructions	77	(1)
Martyrdom of Isaac Jogues, S.J.	78	(1)
New France Proclaimed	79	(3)
New Netherland And New Sweden	82	(11)
Jonas Michaelius	82	(2)
Johannes Megapolensis and the Mohawks	84	(2)
Megapolensis and the Jews	86	(1)
Megapolensis and Isaac Jogues, S.J.	86	(2)
John Printz of New Sweden	88	(3)
Dutch Surrender	91	(2)
England Anew	93	(36)
Virginia	93	(1)
John Rolfe and Pocahantas	93	(3)
Anti-Catholicism	96	(1)
Church Establishment	97	(1)
Virginia's Cure	98	(3)
Massachusetts
Reasons for Removal (Pilgrims)	101	(2)
Persuading London	103	(1)
Reasons for Removal (Puritans)	104	(2)
A Modell of Christian Charity	106	(1)
Puritan Poets	107	(2)
Special Cases: Maryland, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania	109	(1)
Maryland and Roman Catholics	109	(3)
English America's First Mass	112	(2)
Rhode Island and the Baptists	114	(3)
Pennsylvania and the Quakers	117	(2)
Penn and Liberty of Conscience	119	(1)
The English and the Indian	120	(1)
Indian Missions in Massachusetts	120	(2)
King Philp's War	122	(1)
William Penn and the Indians	123	(2)
Virginia Indians and the College of William & Mary	125	(1)
Suggested Reading	126	(3)
Americanizing The Ways of Faith	129	(96)
Religion and Social Order	132	(28)
Congregationalism (Puritanism)	132	(1)
Anne Hutchinson	132	(2)
Mary Dyer	134	(1)
Witchcraft at Salem: Trial of George Burroughs	135	(3)
Witchcraft at Salem: Cotton Mather and Spectral Evidence	138	(2)
Proposals of 1705	140	(1)
Jonathan Mayhew and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel	141	(4)
Anglicanism (Episcopal Church)	145	(1)
Maryland: Appeal to Bishop of London	145	(2)
New York: Against ``Jesuits & Popish Priests''	147	(2)
New York: Against the Presbyterians	149	(2)
North Carolina: Anglicanism ``over-topping its power''	151	(2)
South Carolina: Huguenot Quarrel	153	(2)
Episcopacy Issue: Pennsylvania and New England	155	(5)
Religious And Racial Variety	160	(34)
Continental Diversity	160	(1)
The Palatines	160	(2)
The Salzburgers	162	(5)
Gottlieb Mittelberger and the Atlantic Crossing	167	(3)
Henry Muhlenberg: A Typical Day	170	(1)
Jesuit Banishment	171	(3)
British Diversity	174	(1)
Muhlenberg as Ecumenical Churchman	174	(1)
Muhlenberg and the Baptists	175	(2)
Muhlenberg and Quaker Pacifism	177
Episcopal Order vs. ``congregational'' Chaos	170	(10)
Backcountry Baptists	180	(4)
African and Indian Diversity	184	(1)
Puritan Antislavery	184	(2)
Episcopal Frustration	186	(1)
Quaker Abolitionism	187	(2)
Indian Captivity Narrative	189	(3)
Quaker Testimony on the Indian	192	(2)
Passions And Intellect	194	(31)
Revivalism	194	(1)
George Whitefield, Awakener	194	(3)
Timothy Cutler, Opposer	197	(4)
Colonial Colleges: ``Nurseries of Piety''	201	(1)
Harvard	201	(1)
William & Mary	202	(2)
Yale	204	(1)
College of Philadelphia and Princeton	205	(3)
Columbia	208	(2)
Brown	210	(1)
Rutgers	211	(1)
Dartmouth	212	(2)
Jonathan Edwards	214	(7)
Suggested Reading	221	(4)
Revolution: Political And Ecclesiastical	225	(88)
Religion And Revolution	230	(29)
Pacifism	230	(1)
Moravians	230	(3)
Mennonites	233	(2)
Pacifism in Virginia	235	(1)
Schwenkfelders	236	(1)
Loyalism	237	(1)
Quakers Support the King	237	(1)
Pennsylvania Anglicans	238	(2)
Personal Clerical Struggles	240	(3)
Charles Inglis of New York	243	(3)
Patriotism: A Matter of Bishops	246	(3)
Rhetoric of Revolution	249	(1)
Anthony Benezet	249	(1)
John Allen	250	(3)
Phillis Wheatley	253	(1)
Isaac Backus	254	(3)
Samuel Sherwood	257	(2)
Aftermath of Revolution	259	(21)
Religious Liberty Guaranteed	259	(1)
Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom	259	(3)
James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance	262	(5)
Isaac Backus and a Bill of Rights	267	(3)
Religious Liberty Effected	270	(1)
Virginia's Episcopalians	270	(2)
Virginia's Baptists	272	(2)
Virginia's Presbyterians	274	(2)
Religious Liberty Tested: The Administration of George Washington	276	(4)
Religion In The New Republic	280	(33)
Religion, Rational and Natural	280	(1)
Universalism	280	(3)
Unitarianism	283	(10)
Deism	293	(4)
Religion, Evangelical and Hierarchical	297	(1)
Methodism (White)	297	(3)
Methodism (Black)	300	(3)
Roman Catholicism	303	(3)
Religion in the Young Republic	306	(3)
Suggested Reading	309	(4)
Liberty Unleashed	313	(100)
The Voluntary Principle	317	(23)
Disestablishment	317	(1)
Connecticut	317	(2)
Massachusetts	319	(3)
Voluntary Societies and Society's Reform	322	(1)
Lyman Beecher on Dueling and Temperance	322	(6)
American Bible Society	328	(2)
American Sunday School Union	330	(2)
American Tract Society and the Colporteur System	332	(4)
Revivalism: C. G. Finney	336	(4)
Progress And The Perfect Society	340	(24)
Transcendentalism and Brook Farm	340	(1)
Emerson as Transcendentalist	340	(3)
Peabody on Brook Farm	343	(2)
Oneida Community and Bible Communism	345	(1)
Complex Marriage	345	(2)
Scientific Propagation	347	(2)
Latter-Day Saints and New Revelation	349	(1)
Joseph Smith's First Vision	350	(2)
Printing of the Book of Mormon	352	(3)
Joseph Smith's Revelation on Plural Marriage	355	(2)
Joseph Smith's Martyrdom	357	(2)
Brigham Young Assumes Leadership	359	(1)
Exodus Announced	359	(2)
Requirements for the Journey	361	(1)
Church Authorities Appeal to Iowa Governor	362	(2)
Restorations And Expectations	364	(18)
Restorationism: Disciples of Christ	364	(1)
Barton Stone	364	(2)
Alexander Campbell	366	(3)
Millennialism	369	(1)
Shakers	369	(3)
Millerites	372	(3)
Adventists (Seventh-day)	375	(1)
Spiritualism	376	(1)
Margaret Fox	376	(3)
Horace Greeley	379	(3)
Denominations And Winning The West	382	(19)
Plan of Union: Congregationalists and Presbyterians	382	(1)
The Plan Adopted	382	(1)
The Plan Implemented	383	(3)
Frontier Religion: Baptists and Methodists	386	(1)
Baptist Conversion	386	(2)
Methodist Circuit	388	(2)
Retreats and Revivals: Roman Catholicism	390	(1)
Retreats in Maryland	390	(1)
Bishop Flaget's Jubilee	391	(2)
Missions vs. Revivals	393	(2)
Frontier Fate: Winning, Losing	395	(1)
A Survivor's Cup of Sorrow	395	(2)
A Victim's Valley of Death	397	(4)
Voluntarism Revisited	401	(12)
The Principle Defined	401	(1)
The Principle Demonstrated	402	(7)
Suggested Reading	409	(4)
Evangelical Empire: Rise And Fall	413	(115)
Theology In The New Nation	418	(11)
Robert Baird's ``General Remarks''	418	(2)
Charles Hodge	420	(2)
Horace Bushnell	422	(4)
Charles Porterfield Krauth	426	(3)
Pluralism Or Protestantism	429	(38)
Judaism	429	(1)
Isaac Leeser as Catechist	429	(2)
Isaac Mayer Wise in Albany	431	(2)
Leeser's Missionary Journeys	433	(5)
Roman Catholicism	438	(1)
Trusteeism	438	(2)
Orestes A. Brownson	440	(5)
Isaac T. Hecker	445	(6)
John England	451	(4)
Hispanic Catholicism	455	(4)
Nativism	459	(1)
Samuel F. B. Morse	459	(3)
Awful Disclosures	462	(2)
Religious Know-Nothings	464	(3)
Human Rights And American Religion	467	(50)
Black Religion and Slavery	467	(1)
Slave Religion	467	(3)
Daniel A. Payne	470	(2)
Frederick Douglass	472	(3)
Sojourner Truth	475	(2)
White Abolitionists	477	(1)
Elijah Lovejoy	477	(5)
Orestes A. Brownson	482	(3)
White Apologists	485	(1)
American Colonization Society	485	(1)
John England	486	(2)
Samuel B. How	488	(3)
Abolitionists vs. Apologists: Institutional Schism	491	(1)
The Methodists	491	(3)
The Baptists	494	(3)
The Presbyterians	497	(6)
Women's Rights: The Grimke Sisters and Theodore Weld	503	(5)
Indians' Rights: The Cherokees	508	(1)
U.S. House of Representatives	508	(3)
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia	511	(2)
Worcester v. State of Georgia	513	(4)
National Hope And National Sorrow	517	(11)
Philip Schaff	517	(1)
Abraham Lincoln	518	(7)
Suggested Reading	525	(3)
Index	528